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Reliance to acquire Metro Cash & Carry India in € 500 m deal
07 Nov 2022
The deal includes 31 stores in 21 cities across India, as also land banks and other assets owned by Metro Cash & Carry in India

BP to buy US biogas producer Archaea for $4.1 bn
28 Oct 2022
The addition of Archaea’s production and pipeline has the potential to take BP’s biogas supply volumes to around 70,000 boe/d globally by 2030

Parle in talks with Poland’s Dr Gerard to expand cookie basket
19 Oct 2022
If Parle, which has never been an acquirer - although it has sold some of its own brands – decides to go ahead with the deal, it will be the company’s first acquisition

Adobe to acquire Figma in $20bn cash-and-stock deal
15 Sep 2022
Adobe expects the combination to accelerate the delivery of its Creative Cloud technologies on the web, making the creative process more productive and accessible to more people

Adani’s move to buy NDTV stake unnerves media groups
26 Aug 2022
Media raises hell as news agency owned by 3rd richest man fears for independent media after 4th richest man plans to buy news channel

ArcelorMittal to acquire Brazilian steelmaker CSP for $2.2 billion
02 Aug 2022
ArcelorMittal also announced a new $1.4bn buyback programme of 60 million shares, to be completed by the end of May 2023, despite a 2 per cent decline in its net income to $3.92 billion for the second quarter ended 30 June 2022

Australia's ANZ to buy Suncorp’s banking arm for $3.3 billion
20 Jul 2022
The acquisition will boost ANZ's retail presence in a fast-growing domestic Queensland region and increase its assets in mortgages by nearly a fifth, helping it to overtake National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) for third spot in the business
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The cost of neglecting water transport
03 Feb 2025
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Crypto Currencies Trying To Undermine Global Financial System
27 Jan 2025
US President Donald Trump, it seems, is the latest to join the frenzy for personal or corporate currency, with $TRUMP, or what they call a meme coin, giving a further boost to his crypto image.

As costs of saying final goodbyes rise UK families resort to crowdfunding to pay for funerals
By Axel Miller | 16 Jan 2025
The cost of saying a final goodbye to loved ones in the UK has reached a grim new high, leaving families grappling with unexpected financial burdens.

The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)

The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.

Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!

COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.

The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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